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FOSS.in: A conference in transitionFOSS.in: A conference in transitionPosted Dec 18, 2007 4:52 UTC (Tue) by lipak (guest, #43911)Parent article: FOSS.in: A conference in transition
One problem with FOSS.in over the years has been the low involvement of the Indian academic community in the FOSS movement (I speak as a member of this community!). In turn this means that not many students who come to FOSS.in get "credit" for it so they cannot attend in lieu of other work (for which they do get crediti). The consequent low attendance from students (except for students from in and around Bangalore) means often FOSS.in is held at a time that is not very convenient for students (like in the middle of examination time). At some point this vicious circle should be broken. Regards, Kapil Hari Paranjape. --
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FOSS.in: A conference in transition Posted Dec 23, 2007 18:58 UTC (Sun) by pce (guest, #49651) [Link] One great thing about this year's event, as reported by a few students of mine who attended the conference, was that a good number of students were seen running around ... and many of them were NOT from Bangalore! Should getting "credit" be the only thing which drives a student to a conference? Coming back to the Indian academic community, yourself at IMSc, Ajith at NSC Delhi ( http://nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ ), GCC group at IIT Bombay and a lot of others should be doing interesting, fun and useful stuff with GNU/Linux and Free Software - it's time that we try to bring together these people - an attempt was made some time back with the FOSS-in-Science conference ( http://www.space-kerala.org/fsc/ ) - let's hope we see more progress in this area... Regards, Pramode C.E -----------------
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